Meditational Musings

 How to get 'centered': Focus on awareness. Notice that you're aware of your surroundings. That awareness is your center. This is also being 'at zero', in ho'oponopono terms. This is also 'being the observer'. Also 'God'. Also, Source. Also all that is. Everything and nothing. Also, Inner Being. Notice that what you're aware of, when you turn your awareness -to- that awareness, is what you really are. Not the thoughts that float (or zoom) by, not the emotions you feel. If you can be aware of something, you can't truly be that thing. Even turning your attention to that inner awareness, noticing the awareness that observes the thoughts, emotions, body and outter world, can't be fully comprehended, in a way. You can turn your attention to that inner awareness and all thoughts and sensations start to melt away. It's not a space that can really be described - in that space, you simply...-are-. -That-, is you.  You are the universe know...

 one of the basic freedoms you've been asking for when you think you want freedom is freedom from thinking.  not to say you want to follow someone else. no. not sheep or cattle, in that sense. freedom from the vast amount of thoughts attached to every desire. judgements, worries, fears, doubts, definitions. all of those are bars on freedom. that observer state, that is your freedom. maintaining your ability to turn your focus wherever you -want- to turn it, rather than having an emotion or thought grip your focus away from you, is what you want. (Do you -want- to be feeling fear? Hatred? Anger? Anxiety? You may think it a logical reaction to the person, place or situation you're observing, but do you -want- to feel it? If not, you use focus to move your attention to something else. How well can you focus? Amazingly well, if you retain your grasp of your focus. It's when the thoughts and emotions dictate your focus that you have difficulty, or end up having difficulty.)